Jarosław Gruda

Acting

Jarosław Gruda

Born

1965-04-16 (61)

Known for

Acting

Credits

57 titles

Known for

Father Matthew poster
5.3

Father Matthew is about the adventures of a Roman Catholic priest who, after returning from a mission to Belarus, is sent to work in a small parish. As a pastor, together with a friendly policeman, he solves mysteries and gives help to his parishioners, as well as all those who are in need.

Father Matthew

2008

Kryminalni poster
5.7

Kryminalni was a Polish crime drama television series that aired on TVN network from September 18, 2004 until May 24, 2008. It ran for 8 seasons and 101 episodes were broadcast in total. It was created by Polish director and screenwriter Piotr Wereśniak and produced by MTL Maxfilm studio. The series followed life and work of police officers from the elite Criminal Terror and Murders Division of the Warsaw Metropolitan Police; the title refers to police officers in the crime section. The three main characters were Adam Zawada, an experienced, tough cup, his younger colleague Marek Brodecki and Barbara Storosz, an ambitious female officer who in the first season joins the team just after graduating. Although none of the main actors had had star status before the series debuted, all three of them rose to prominence and popularity during the 5-year-long run. Many of Poland's best known actors guest starred, usually playing roles of people involved in just one particular investigation. The serial was one of the most popular in Poland: each week it had an audience of 4 million.

Kryminalni

2004

Na sygnale poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Na sygnale

2014

The Peasants poster
7.5

Peasant girl Jagna is forced to marry the much older, wealthy farmer Boryna, despite her love for his son Antek. With time, Jagna becomes the object of envy and disdain with the villagers and she must fight to preserve her independence.

The Peasants

2023

The Defence poster
7.0

Three-year-old Nikola Szlezyngier disappears in unexplained circumstances and her parents Angelika and Dawid are the main suspects. Angelika contacts an old friend Joanna Chylka, a brilliant, cynical and successful lawyer to help. With her new apprentice Kordian, Joanna will try to bring the case to a happy close.

The Defence

2018

Instynkt poster
5.0

An enigmatic commissioner joins the Warsaw Police, where her unconventional investigation methods unsettle the officers in the homicide department.

Instynkt

2011

Film credits

2020s · 10 titles

The Peasants poster
7.5

Peasant girl Jagna is forced to marry the much older, wealthy farmer Boryna, despite her love for his son Antek. With time, Jagna becomes the object of envy and disdain with the villagers and she must fight to preserve her independence.

The Peasants

2023

Forgotten Love poster
7.8

A once-respected surgeon who's lost his family and his memory gets a chance at redemption when he reconnects with someone from his forgotten past.

Forgotten Love

2023

Screw Mickiewicz 2 poster
6.8

The rebellious IIIB crew and their unconventional teacher Jan Sienkiewicz are back! Love, troubles and school dramas make up everyday life of Dante, Nel and the whole gang. It is joined now by a young mathematical genius - Korek. The guys intend to teach him how to pick up girls, but it turns out that their know-how is rather theoretical…

Screw Mickiewicz 2

2025

Woman of... poster
6.2

Aniela has lived the first half of her life as a man: with an office job, a wife, and two children. But neither her family's opposition nor repression by the government in Poland can stop her from finally becoming the person she's always been.

Woman of...

2024

Screw Mickiewicz 3 poster
5.9

Dante struggles to reconcile his dreams with reality, while his relationship with Nel is tested. Then the mysterious Adam appears. In the background: the return of Korek, new feelings for Cegła, and the question of whether loyalty, friendship, and love can survive in the adult world.

Screw Mickiewicz 3

2026

Mikołaj na sygnale 2: Zdążyć przed Wigilią poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mikołaj na sygnale 2: Zdążyć przed Wigilią

2025

I Believe in Santa 2 poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

I Believe in Santa 2

2025

Screw Mickiewicz poster
5.5

Jan Sienkiewicz, a writer and lecturer who was expelled from university, takes a job at a Warsaw high school. Under his care comes the school's famous class of rebellious and knowledge-resistant outcasts. IIB are students from hell, and their future seems doomed. But Sienkiewicz, armed with literature, enthusiasm and a lot of unconventional ideas, will challenge the group doomed to exclusion. Will he be able to tame her and save her? A story about friendship, love, school madness and that everyone deserves another chance.

Screw Mickiewicz

2024

Polowanie poster
7.0

Outraged by corruption in his small town, a family man runs for mayor but discovers that staying true to his principles may come at a devastating cost.

Polowanie

2023

Babilon. Raport o stanie wojennym poster
6.2

A Polish historical film, based on Marek Nowakowski's book "Report on Martial Law. Notes from Everyday Life." An interesting procedure of the production is the combination of a classic feature film with animation stylized as a comic book.

Babilon. Raport o stanie wojennym

2021

2010s · 6 titles

Hatred poster
7.2

Summer of 1939. Zosia is a young Polish girl who is deeply in love with Ukrainian Petro. Their great love will be put to the test when her father decides to marry her to a wealthy widower Skiba. Right after wedding she is left alone because her husband is drafted to the Polish army for the war with Germany. Meanwhile, tensions grow due to Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians living side by side.

Hatred

2016

The Resistance Fighter poster
6.2

Based on the true story of Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, who served as a courier between the commanders of the Polish Home Army and the Polish Government in Exile in London. He must return quickly to Warsaw to transmit orders from the Polish PM to the Home Army's commander-in-chief before the start of the Warsaw uprising.

The Resistance Fighter

2019

Battle of Warsaw 1920 poster
4.5

Poland's winning battle against Soviet Russia as seen through the eyes of two young protagonists, Ola and Jan. She is a Warsaw cabaret dancer, while he is a cavalry officer and poet who believes in socialist ideals

Battle of Warsaw 1920

2011

Clergy poster
6.5

The fate of three Catholic priests were linked together through tragic events a few years back. Every year, on the anniversary of the catastrophe, they gather to celebrate their survival of the tragedy. Lisowski works at a curia in a big city, building his career while dreaming of the Vatican. Standing in his way, Mordowicz, the archbishop, a luxurious church dignitary who is making use of his political connections to build the largest sanctuary in Poland. Trybus, is a parish priest and often submits to human weaknesses. Kukuła also is not doing well. Despite his passion for faith, he is losing the trust of his flock. Soon, through new tragic events, the paths of the three priests will cross again.

Clergy

2018

Pitbull. Last Dog poster
5.9

A policeman gets killed and the short-staffed police chief sends for a few experienced officers to support him in his fight with organized crime. Meanwhile, a conflict between local gangster groups escalates.

Pitbull. Last Dog

2018

Traffic Department poster
6.6

Seven policemen, seven deadly sins, a murder case, secrets and the filth of everyday police work: Traffic Department transports the viewer into the darkest Warsaw streets.

Traffic Department

2013

2000s · 13 titles

Operation Dunaj poster
5.2

Operation Danube was the cover name for the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact armies in August 1968. The fleet of Polish tanks which arrive to liberate their neighbor, ostensibly threatened by a counter-revolution, includes the old tank nicknamed Ladybird, which is the last to leave the barracks.

Operation Dunaj

2009

The Wedding poster
7.2

Wojnar is a wealthy man who is marrying off his beautiful daughter Kasia, in a small town in present day Poland. Wojnar had to bribe the groom with a fancy car, since Kasia was pregnant by another man. At the end of the ceremony, the car is delivered by a gangster, who immediately demands the promised money and the deed to land from Kasia's grandfather. Unfortunately grandpa is unwilling to let go of the land. Meanwhile each of the workers at the reception demand to be paid, so Wojnar, who is very reluctant to part with his money, tries to haggle and bribe his way out of all the situations.

The Wedding

2004

The Hexer poster
5.3

A heroic fantasy based on the famous novels by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, "The Sword of Destiny" and "The Last Wish". This film immerses us in a world inhabited by kings and knights, princesses and sorcerers, priests and magicians, where fire-breathing dragons guard untold treasures, and human greed leads to an endless struggle for power, cruelty, bloodshed, and violence. And this world has its own superheroes - fearless witchers, people with magical powers. Their mission is to protect the human race from any misfortune. The witcher Geralt of Rivia must find the young princess Ciri, kidnapped by enemies. Only her return to the small kingdom of Cintra, which was attacked by aggressors, can restore peace and order there. The brave witcher sets off on a journey, long, distant and deadly.

The Hexer

2001

White Soup poster
6.6

The dramatic story of a woman's struggle to discover the identity of her grandchild's father. The grandmother becomes obsessed with discovering the identity of the man who fathered her daughter's child.The naive daughter is of little help with her mother with the search, which turns into a dangerous journey, filled with unexpected events. The mother is forced to face and overcome her own dark secrets and deepest fears, and her struggles provide her daughter with a new sense of hope and understanding of her own life.

White Soup

2003

Ranczo Wilkowyje poster
5.6

Lucy and Kusy have to face quite a problem. From the States suddenly arrives Lucy's mysterious husband Louis. It turns out that their divorce was not fully carried out. Louis fights for his wife's lost feelings, he wants the girl to return to the US with him. Kusy removes himself into the shadows, but over time begins to suspect Louis of not very pure intentions. In the background, there is a clash between the cunning Czerepach, in the role of an auditor from the Chamber of Accounts, and the Village Head. Desperate, the Village Head, together with the entrepreneur Więclawski, who has won all tenders in the municipality for years, is plotting against his eternal enemy. The bench regulars are also preparing a surprise.

Ranczo Wilkowyje

2007

There and Back poster
7.4

In the mid-1960s, a respected surgeon dreams of leaving Poland to see his wife and daughter in England. To get the money for his escape, he needs to consider taking part in a bank robbery.

There and Back

2002

Money Is Not Everything poster
6.7

The protagonist of the film is a 50-year-old businessman, Tomasz Adamczyk, who wants to give up running his winery business and devote himself to his lifelong passion for philosophy. This idea does not appeal to his business partner. On top of all this, Tomasz has an accident and is taken hostage by enthusiasts of the wine he produces.

Money Is Not Everything

2001

Strefa ciszy poster
3.2

A young married couple, Iza and Slawek, stray from the forest road, with a moment of privacy in mind. In addition, their car breaks down. Slawek stays behind, while Iza decides to go to the bus stop. After a while, 4 men get out of the off-road car. It turns out that they are gangsters who are celebrating the release of one of them from prison. Iza becomes their "plaything". Meanwhile, a concerned Slawek tries to interest the police in his wife's disappearance. The gangsters, along with Iza, go to a summer house located in the so-called "quiet zone" and there they have an alcoholic libation, and Iza has to fight for survival.

Strefa ciszy

2001

Wielkie rzeczy: Sieć poster
8.0

Cezary and Danuta's relationship almost breaks up when her husband discovers that his wife has a cell phone and probably cheats on him.

Wielkie rzeczy: Sieć

2001

Operacja Koza poster
4.6

Adam Horn, a young Polish scientist, is conducting research to discover a substance that makes personality swapping possible. Appearing before a committee granting funds for further research, he presents a somewhat "stilted" achievement, demonstrating on his experimental pet the personality swap of a dog with a goat Matilda. The fame of his research reaches the former KGB, which sends him an agent committed to intercepting the research results.

Operacja Koza

2000

Jest sprawa... poster
3.9

The post-state farm village of Piaski in Pomerania. A deputy minister shows up in the village. He is interested in finding a bust of Lenin, in which the now deceased former secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party smuggled a diamond of enormous value, the "Eye of Siberia." The confidential conversation between the deputy minister and the village head accidentally overhears the unemployed Stanislaw Michalek. He informs his friends about the case. The three men decide to find the secretary's treasure. The problem is that the secretary had a collection of busts of Lenin, which are now strewn all over the village.

Jest sprawa...

2002

Gulczas, what do you think... poster
2.4

A feature film starring mostly the participants of the first edition of Polish "Big Brother" reality show in 2001.

Gulczas, what do you think...

2001

All Will Be Well poster
7.1

A teenage boy, whose mother is terminally ill, and his alcohol-addicted sports teacher set out on a pilgrimage to Czestochowa.

All Will Be Well

2007

1990s · 12 titles

Europa Europa poster
7.2

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.

Europa Europa

1990

Sara poster
6.6

Sixteen-year-old Sara's father is a wealthy gangster and has a lot of enemies. Her father makes clear that whoever touches Sara will die and he looks for the right bodyguard to protect her.

Sara

1997

A Bachelor's Life Abroad poster
4.6

The action is set in the early 20th century. The film is made up of six sequences. In the first, Michal, young man who came from Poland to Germany, enrolls in a course on how to behave in social situations and on etiquette. However when he tries to approach girls using the rules which he's been taught... he only makes a fool of himself. Then, he goes to work for a man who owns a carousel and who loves to chase other women. In the next sequence, Michal meets the divorced landlady, Mrs. Luther, and goes through a whole lot of erotic experiences. When he escapes exhausted from his landlady, he starts working in a mine and visits brothels on a regular basis. He looks on women in a totally cynical manner. However, his persistent wandering must finally result in a true love.

A Bachelor's Life Abroad

1993

Deserter's Gold poster
6.1

"Deserter's Gold", the sequel to the very popular "The Deserters", is a rich war comedy, skipping humorously around the more serious dangers of a war. Deserters Gold takes place during World War II, while the first film happened during WWI. The heroes' mission is to rob a Nazi-run bank in Poland for gold that will buy military supplies for the Polish Underground.

Deserter's Gold

1998

The Ring with a Crowned Eagle poster
4.4

A Polish Resistance fighter who survived the Nazi years cannot accept the new Communist power.

The Ring with a Crowned Eagle

1993

Tato poster
7.1

Tato is the story of a divorced father fighting for the right to raise his 7-year-old daughter. When his marriage falls apart, he decides to kidnap his daughter rather than let the court award custody to his mentally ill wife, whom he deems unfit to raise their child. But as he quickly finds out, it’s easier to be a real man than it is to be a real father.

Tato

1995

No artwork available
8.0

A young Janka leads a band of kids in 1920's Poland, experiencing many adventures and witnessing technological innnovations along the way. The first of two theatrical films edited out of the original TV series.

Janka - Orły i Wilki

1993

At the End of the World poster
7.0

The year is 1989, and the country's first free elections in a long time are approaching. A man in a cycling cap organizes a chain of clean hands, using it as a tool in his election campaign. In the queue outside the passport office, people chat, make plans, and ponder what's worth selling abroad. Writers observe the world around them. One of them is applying for a passport. In Dzierżyński Square, the monument to Feliks Edmundowicz is being dismantled. Two drunk men sleep on a bench, and behind them is a sign reading: "All is well." The two writers observe the ongoing transformation of the political system.

At the End of the World

1994

No artwork available
NR

A young Janka leads a band of kids in 1920's Poland, experiencing many adventures and witnessing technological innnovations along the way. The second of two theatrical films edited out of the original TV series.

Janka - Spełnione marzenie

1993

Enak poster
3.7

A gigantic scandal breaks out in the United States. Charles Enak, sent into space, refuses to return to Earth. He does not give any reasons for his decision. Meanwhile, the world is plunging into a political crisis - the biggest one since the Cold War. Attempts to automatically bring the ship back to Earth failed, as Enak turned off the on-board equipment. Sensationalist reporters begin to check the biography of the scandal's hero. They find his ex-wife, investigate his past in communist Poland. They soon discover that Charles Enak aka Karol Enakowski has an extraordinary property: he can influence the human subconscious.

Enak

1993

Pożegnanie z Marią poster
7.0

On their wedding day in occupied Poland, poet Tadeusz brings Sarah, the Jewish woman he rescued from a Gestapo officer, to the celebration, only for her captor Cieślik to crash the party and force her into an impossible choice: become his lover or betray her to the Nazis. Filip Zylber’s debut uses Tomasz Stańko’s music and expanded characterizations to breathe new poetic life into Borowski’s terse wartime tale.

Pożegnanie z Marią

1993

Zabić na końcu poster
6.7

Two workers, bored with their current situation, decide to rob a famous movie director.

Zabić na końcu

1990

Series credits

Father Matthew poster
5.3

Father Matthew is about the adventures of a Roman Catholic priest who, after returning from a mission to Belarus, is sent to work in a small parish. As a pastor, together with a friendly policeman, he solves mysteries and gives help to his parishioners, as well as all those who are in need.

Father Matthew

2008

Father Matthew poster
5.3

Father Matthew is about the adventures of a Roman Catholic priest who, after returning from a mission to Belarus, is sent to work in a small parish. As a pastor, together with a friendly policeman, he solves mysteries and gives help to his parishioners, as well as all those who are in need.

Father Matthew

2008

Kryminalni poster
5.7

Kryminalni was a Polish crime drama television series that aired on TVN network from September 18, 2004 until May 24, 2008. It ran for 8 seasons and 101 episodes were broadcast in total. It was created by Polish director and screenwriter Piotr Wereśniak and produced by MTL Maxfilm studio. The series followed life and work of police officers from the elite Criminal Terror and Murders Division of the Warsaw Metropolitan Police; the title refers to police officers in the crime section. The three main characters were Adam Zawada, an experienced, tough cup, his younger colleague Marek Brodecki and Barbara Storosz, an ambitious female officer who in the first season joins the team just after graduating. Although none of the main actors had had star status before the series debuted, all three of them rose to prominence and popularity during the 5-year-long run. Many of Poland's best known actors guest starred, usually playing roles of people involved in just one particular investigation. The serial was one of the most popular in Poland: each week it had an audience of 4 million.

Kryminalni

2004

Na sygnale poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Na sygnale

2014

The Defence poster
7.0

Three-year-old Nikola Szlezyngier disappears in unexplained circumstances and her parents Angelika and Dawid are the main suspects. Angelika contacts an old friend Joanna Chylka, a brilliant, cynical and successful lawyer to help. With her new apprentice Kordian, Joanna will try to bring the case to a happy close.

The Defence

2018

Instynkt poster
5.0

An enigmatic commissioner joins the Warsaw Police, where her unconventional investigation methods unsettle the officers in the homicide department.

Instynkt

2011

Boża podszewka. Część druga poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Boża podszewka. Część druga

2005

Kuchnia polska poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kuchnia polska

1993

Siła wyższa poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Siła wyższa

2012

Panny i wdowy poster
6.0

An epic tale of a hundred years of Polish history from the perspective of women, the titular maidens and widows. Set against the backdrop of turbulent historical events.

Panny i wdowy

1992

Fałszerze - Powrót Sfory poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Fałszerze - Powrót Sfory

2007

Skarb sekretarza poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Skarb sekretarza

2000